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First Principles: Freedom Is Not Bought Cheaply. It Has A Cost; It Imposes A Burden…So Too Must We – In A Less Final, Less Heroic Way – Be Willing To Give of Ourselves
“Our first obligation to them and ourselves is plain enough: The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Burden, Cheaply, Commenorate, Costs, Died, Endure and Prosper, Final, First Obligation, First Principles, Freedom, Give of Ourselves, Heroic, Lives, Ronald Reagn, Sacrifice, United States
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Lessons of Sadie Hawkins
Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder
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When It’s Gone
My Plan B poem for the poetry month event. It wasn’t necessarily meant to be the poem dealing with the passage of time. But then, as the words flowed, it’s exactly about that isn’t it? When It’s Gone by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday, Busy Days, Childish, Chin Up, Concentrate, Conform, Costs, Cut, Daughter, Details, Dream, Drive, Fact, Fitting In, God, Gone, Kill, Leave, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Nothing, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rail, Recall, Reunite, Rites, Rules, School, Shine, Snowfall, Teach, Thrill, Time, Understood, Uniform, War, Wood
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